This basic iPhone tutorial demonstrates how to use the Voice Memo application in iPhone OS 3.0. For now iPhone OS 3.0 is only available to Developers and will be available to general public in June 2009. Lets learn how to create Voice Memos in iPhone OS 3.0, modify and manage them.

I love how they’re called voice memos but you can’t trigger them in calendar. To my mind a memo is something that reminds you. This isn’t a memo.

The closest that you can get to this is something called VoCal which WILL play a voice remember back to you but only after it’s pushed it off the server (IF you have reception) and you’ve taken the phone out of your pocket, unlocked it and hit ‘accept’ by which time you might just as well have read it.

The amount of times I’ve been cycling along and my phone has gone ‘binglybing’ (or whatever) and I’ve forgotten all about it and so don’t check my messages when I finish cycling. I thought with ‘Memo’ I could do what I’ve wanted to do since I got my first ever pocket organiser (an ASUS pocket PC sans any phone capabilities). Ah well.

Apple won’t help me, apps can’t help me (hampered as they are by programming restrictions – I know enough to know that it’s APPLE’S RESTRICTIONS that means they can’t store the memos locally or access apple’s own memos and APPLE’S RESTRICTIONS that mean they can’t run a file without putting a prompt first necessitating an unlocking of the phone before that, and as the prompts don’t stay there long also an opening of the app) and jailbreaking can’t help me because no JB developers have thought of this yet and I don’t have the skills to code it myself (although I’m thinking of using a workaround by finding the relevant folders and moving/renaming the files to ringtones which I can then launch through alarms – it’s crude but I can handle a small shell script).